Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1939 [PAGE 9]

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The University of I l l i n o i s uras chartered February 28, 1867, by the state ger. ral assembly as the I l l i n o i s I n d u s t r i a l unlv€ 3ity # I t has t 3 ?::nc Ion of beir the land grant college f the s t a t e In • Lch the la z t :oll • move »nt o r i g i n a t e d In 1851; the s t a t e which was the home f President .-"err. Lincoln who signed the land grant college act in 1862. e Uhivei Ity opened March 2, 1868, with 50 students and three faculty m be . n were admitted in 1670. In 1885 the name v s changed t o Unlit;/ of I l l i n o i s . Ur.:.•..: - : . . • . • ; n dc irtments—From the beginning, i n s t r u c t i o n v s offered I j r i c u l t u r e , engineering, and the l i b e r a l a r t s nd s c i e n c e s , Gradi s or :ed in 1892. Summer s e s s i o n s were t a r t e c in 1894. S es in l£ e organized as a school in 1896, and as a coll e in 1900. e Schc of M ic v. s organized in 1897, and now i s a \ rt of t a College of i ne and lied £ r t s , r. Lch was organized in 1931. In 1897 the Libr y s ool *' re I by the ace s l t i o n of the School of Library I one ich had beer. rganized in 1893 a t :he Armour I n s t i t u t e in Chicago. Busine aining rt . i 1900, and or oA :d i n t o the College of Col ce In 1915. ur D : truct )n was begun in 1902, and the School of Jc -nalism organize Q 27. The hool of Education was organized in 1905, and became a cc $e 18. 1 • School of PhysiceQ ducation was organized in 195*:. • o department:;—The School of Pharmacy w; rganized in 1 6 y L > of the Chic o Coll' 1 n of Pha -y, found. in , and 1932 b e College of PI m cy. In 1897 tl Coll of ici€ • ( unica^o, " >, bli8l d Diishect in 18R1, D< am i f f i l i a t e d with the LHHI, bee M ~~ *~ of * l l i n o i s , and In 1913 becai '" I f Med c i n e . The Joll< r -try v; for i In 1905 from a i it ... . r e a t e d In 1901 in the nt Coll e of Medicine.